UNDERRATED The Winter Olympics: NBC has taken a lot heat for the hefty cost of airing this year's games, but we're grateful they are. Not that they're doing anything particularly unique, but we're simply addicted to watching massively committed athletes from around the world compete in sports that mostly vanish from the public eye as soon as the torch goes out. Call us saps, but we're having an Olympic moment.

UNDERRATED The Winter Olympics: NBC has taken a lot heat for the hefty cost of airing this year's games, but we're grateful they are. Not that they're doing anything particularly unique, but we're simply addicted to watching massively committed athletes from around the world compete in sports that mostly vanish from the public eye as soon as the torch goes out. Call us saps, but we're having an Olympic moment. (Alex Livesey / Getty Images)

UNDERRATED The Winter Olympics: NBC has taken a lot heat for the hefty cost of airing this year's games, but we're grateful they are. Not that they're doing anything particularly unique, but we're simply addicted to watching massively committed athletes from around the world compete in sports that mostly vanish from the public eye as soon as the torch goes out. Call us saps, but we're having an Olympic moment.